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Fencer Vulns
high 7.7

CVE-2020-8022 json

User-writeable configuration file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf allows for escalation of priviliges

published 2020-06-29 6 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also BIT-tomcat-2020-8022 , EUVD-2022-1008 , GHSA-gc58-v8h3-x2gr

cvss
7.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of tomcat on SUSE Enterprise Storage 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 allows local attackers to escalate from group tomcat to root. This issue affects: SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.39.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.39.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.57.3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.57.3. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami tomcat 9.0.35-3.57.3
  • SUSE SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 9.0.35-3.39.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 9.0.35-3.39.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS 9.0.35-3.57.3
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 9.0.35-3.57.3
  • SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS +8 more 8.0.53-29.32.1
  • tomcat SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP1 9.0.35-4.35.1
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 9.0.35-3.57.3
  • tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +1 more 9.0.35-3.39.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1791-1SUSE-SU-2020:1790-1SUSE-SU-2020:1789-1SUSE-SU-2020:1788-1

  • tomcat openSUSE Leap 15.1 9.0.35-lp151.3.21.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0911-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-8022 updated cvss 7.7

tomcat: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf is group-writable

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 tomcat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 tomcat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-jsvc, tomcat-javadoc, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-2.2-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pki-servlet-engine, pki-servlet-4.0-api Red Hat Fuse 7 tomcat Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 tomcat
    +3 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5 tomcat Red Hat Process Automation 7 tomcat Red Hat support for Spring Boot tomcat
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.suse.com https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172405 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
OSV 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami tomcat
<9.0.35-3.57.3
9.0.35-3.57.3

Affected products

  • SUSE SUSE Enterprise Storage 5
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15
  • SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
  • SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8
  • SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.